{"id":405,"date":"2009-01-11T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T06:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-01-11T12:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T06:47:35","slug":"fears-for-bhutan-national-animal-takin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/fears-for-bhutan-national-animal-takin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears for Bhutan national animal, Takin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- END - companion banner --> <!-- end of the embedded player component --> <!-- body --> <!-- S BO -->Source-BBC: The mountain kingdom of Bhutan is trying to protect its national animal, the Takin, from extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that the creature was created from the bones of a goat and a cow [by the Divine Madman] but there are thought to be fewer than 1,000 left in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Haviland visited the national Takin reserve to discover more about the unusual animal.Check out the short 3 minute video.<\/p>\n<p>Weblink: http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7813805.stm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-BBC: The mountain kingdom of Bhutan is trying to protect its national animal, the Takin, from extinction. Legend has it that the creature was created from the bones of a goat and a cow [by the Divine Madman] but there are thought to be fewer than 1,000 left in the country. Charles Haviland visited the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/fears-for-bhutan-national-animal-takin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fears for Bhutan national animal, Takin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[205,218,414,1367,1415],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tourism-bhutan","tag-bhutan","tag-bhutan-tourism","tag-divine-madman","tag-takin","tag-travel-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetobhutan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}